I think xournal++ has a journal background to handwrite music

Baikal works wonders

I second this

Ah, good old PlarformIO

Ok, thanks

What’s up with the in-app tracking? Is it just related to likes/dislikes?

A raspberry pi running pihole does not need a monitor. Pihole itself only requires a lan connection (wifi should also work, check pihole docs for that) and only uses the monitor to show your ip address at the start. You can use any monitor with the pi, you don’t need a dedicated one

I run it on oracle cloud always free tier, it’s the only service I run there. I just let it oing my subdomains every 2 minutes and send me notifications on telegram. But I don’t think that’s a solution for you, since you don’t want to use a vps